Bangalore - IT Parks & IT SEZs thread

[engineer.akash]

Originally Posted by Indian Sun

Notice how you have used lesser "greater than" symbols between Mysore,Bengaluru,India and Mangalore,Karnataka,India.

I just put them keeping into account the number of branded IT industries in each city...

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20 Sep, 2010, 04.18AM IST, PP Thimmaya,ET Bureau
TCS seeks 100 acre in Bangalore to house new facility

BANGALORE: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT services exporter, has approached the Karnataka government seeking 100 acre in Bangalore to build a new facility.

A senior state government official said they are keen to provide the land to TCS near the new international airport at Devanahallli, on the outskirts of Bangalore city. When contacted regarding this development, a TCS spokesperson said: “No comments from our end”.

The state government has been keen on developing a new IT hub in the northern part of Bangalore city near the international airport and quite a few IT services majors have already evinced interest in setting up their development facilities.

Besides, the state government is planning to develop a dedicated aerospace zone near Devanahalli, which will involve both design and manufacturing. Along with these plans, moves are already afoot to set up an integrated township for the technology sector called the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR) spread over 40 sq km or 12,000 acre in Devanahalli.

ITIR is part of the Centre’s initiative to promote technology industry in the country. Under this, state government would ensure all the physical infrastructure and utilities while the Centre facilitates the development of national highways, airport and rail links.

The state government has already notified acquisition of 2,081 acre for ITIR and is in the process of selecting a developer for the project. As many as 58 IT companies have already approached the government seeking 917 acres to start their operations in ITIR. Some of these companies include Infosys, Wipro, Tejas Networks and Cognizant.

Karnataka is the first state in the country to initialise the process of setting up ITIR. Being the largest contributor to IT services exports from the country, the Karnataka government is keen to maintain its dominance with 35% share. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/6588705.cms

Infy-sarjapur, wipro-kodathi announced in Global Investors Meet 2010. But where was TCS?? Now wakes up to reality, better late than never

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so delighted to read this news ....TCS and CTS are more concentrated towards Chennai and other cities....
Wish the ITIR starts soon along with a dedicated local train and HSR to BAIL

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returning to the mysuru mangaluru topic .... i had heard long back that Wipro/TCS had seeked land in Udupi/DK for their campuses - for around 15k to 18k employees whats the update on that?
I heard from a friend that Mangluru campus for TCS is under construction

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Bangalore: Information technology major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced on Monday that it has bagged a contract to establish and manage the Karnataka Government's State Data Centre (SDC). The SDC, while enhancing the infrastructure required to consolidate the State level applications, will be interoperable with the existing infrastructure, said a TCS release.
TCS is associated with the Centre for e-Governance, which is establishing and managing the new LAN (Local Area Network) at the State Secretariat. M.N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, e-Governance Department, Government of Karnataka , said: “TCS has rightfully emerged as the winner in a transparent process bidding to set up the SDC.”
The SDC will be housed at the Vikasa Soudha, and the existing data centre will function as the Disaster Recovery Centre, said Mr. Vidyashankar.

Source -Hindu

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Bangalore: A team of officials of the Tata Group, led by Tata Steel Vice-Chairman B. Muthuraman, met Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Tuesday to review several projects of the group in the State.

V.P. Baligar, Principal Secretary, Industry and Commerce, described the meeting as “the first comprehensive review of projects of the Tata Group in the State since the Global Investors Meeting in June”.

Mr. Baligar told The Hindu that the Government has given “in-principle approval” for Tata Consultancy Services' new campus near the international airport in Bangalore, which requires 100 acres of land. He said the campus would be “one of the biggest campuses of TCS in India”.


Mr. Baligar said company officials expressed “happiness with the land acquisition process” for Tata Metaliks' three million-tonne steel plant at Haveri, involving an investment of Rs. 15,000 crore.

The company signed a memorandum of understanding with the State Government for the project, which requires about 2,000 acres, during the Global Investors Meet. Tata Metaliks, a subsidiary of Tata Steel, is primarily a pig iron producer. Whether the company has tied up with iron ore suppliers, Mr. Baligar said, “The hearing for issuing the mining lease is going on and may conclude in a month or two.”

Tata Consulting Engineers has also received “in-principle approval” for five acres of land for its project, Mr. Baligar said. He said the screening committee of the State High Level Clearance Committee would consider Tata Housing's proposals.

Mr. Baligar said Roots Corporation Limited, a subsidiary of the Tata Group's flagship in the hospitality sector, The Indian Hotels Company Limited (IHCL), has sought land for projects in Hubli and Belgaum. The hotels will be under the Ginger brand.

Mr. Baligar said the State Tourism Department “will identify land” for other projects of the company at Kabini, Hassan and Hampi.

Mr. Baligar said discussions also focussed on projects that are being considered by Tata Realty, which has been shortlisted for the high speed rail link to the international airport in Bangalore. The company is also one of the bidders for the proposed mono rail project. The State Government has invited the company to bid for road projects on a build-operate-transfer basis (BOT), Mr. Baligar added.

Tata Power, which has bid for the gas-based Bidadi power project, is also being considered for the super critical gas-based power project in Gulbarga district, Mr. Baligar said.

Minister for Large and Medium Industries Murugesh. R. Nirani, Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath were among those present at the review.

Source - Hindu.

[gentem]

Tata Group in big expansion mode in Karnataka
PTI, Sep 28, 2010, 05.00pm IST

BANGALORE: Tata Group is on an expansion spree in Karnataka, with new projects of its companies at various stages, including the proposed 100-acre Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) campus here.

Senior Tata Group officials, including the Vice-Chairman of Tata Steel B Muthuraman, met the state Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and reviewed a number of projects here today. Industry and Commerce Secretary V P Baligar told PTI later that TCS has approached the Government to allot 100 acres to set up a campus at IT park in Deveanahalli on the outskirts of the city.

He said the Chief Minister has assured the Group about the land allotment. "It will be one of the biggest campuses of TCS in India", he said.

Large and Medium Industries Minister Murugesh R Nirani, Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Chief Secretary S V Ranganath were also among the ones present here.

Tata Realty is one of the bidders for the proposed mono- rail and high-speed rail link projects in the city, besides development of national highway and state highway, he said.

Read more: Tata Group in big expansion mode in Karnataka - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...#ixzz10tDL91LI

TCS should be given land in Mysore instead! Infy wipro are already there...

28 Sep, 2010, 03.00PM IST,PTI
Tata Group in big expansion mode in Karnataka

BANGALORE: Tata Group is on an expansion spree in Karnataka, with new projects of its companies at various stages, including the proposed 100-acre Tata Consultancy Service (TCS) campus here.

Senior Tata Group officials, including the Vice-Chairman of Tata Steel B Muthuraman, met the state Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa and reviewed a number of projects here on Tuesday.

Industry and Commerce Secretary V P Baligar said later that TCS has approached the Government to allot 100 acres to set up a campus at IT park in Deveanahalli on the outskirts of the city.

He said the Chief Minister has assured the Group about the land allotment. "It will be one of the biggest campuses of TCS in India", he said.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/6643054.cms

Likely it is in ITIR..

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when will these guys move to tier-2 3 cities ...this would surely add pressure to the Airport. B/w IT companies should plan for accomodating atleast 25% of the employees in the IT Park . And this is quite easy since most of the employees in these companies are freshers/bachelors.
eg: If they plan to have 20,000 people in one campus provide 1000 2bhk flats which can accomodate 4000 employees i.e 20% this model can be replicated in all new campuses.

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Bangalore: The Karnataka government will unveil an ‘exhaustive' policy exclusively for the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) sector during the IT.biz event in late October, said Ashok Kumar Manoli, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Biotechnology, and Science and Technology, on Thursday. Delivering the inaugural address at CLIK Unwired 2010, a seminar and exhibition on wireless technologies, Mr. Manoli said the country's first IT Investment Region (ITIR) being established near the Bengaluru International Airport, will have “special focus” on the hardware segment.

R&D centre

Among the new facilities planned in the ITIR is a Research and Development incubation centre. Spread over “at least 100 acres of land within the ITIR,” the centre will provide smaller companies the facilities to specialise in niche areas. The State government, he said, has held “informal discussions” with the Centre for earmarking about 500 acres of land in the ITIR for Foreign Direct Investment in the hardware sector. The ITIR would have helipads, convention centres, residential areas inter alia.
Mr. Manoli said government projects such as the Aadhar project of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) offered “enormous business opportunities for private companies.” He said the move towards a unified Goods and Service Tax (GST) would also offer similar opportunities.
Source - Hindu...
and namma bengaluru

[arunpr]

Originally Posted by naveen_blr

when will these guys move to tier-2 3 cities ...this would surely add pressure to the Airport. B/w IT companies should plan for accomodating atleast 25% of the employees in the IT Park . And this is quite easy since most of the employees in these companies are freshers/bachelors.
eg: If they plan to have 20,000 people in one campus provide 1000 2bhk flats which can accomodate 4000 employees i.e 20% this model can be replicated in all new campuses.

ITIR will be the biggest land scam in Indias history !!! These politicians will make bangalore a hell !!!

How much will be the bribe money involved in ITIR land scam ?

BANGALORE: This could perhaps seal the political fate of Bangalore development minister Katta Subramanya Naidu, who is in the thick of a controversy over his alleged involvement in a Rs 72-crore KIADB (Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board) land scam.

On Thursday, his son Katta Jagadish — BBMP corporator — was caught red-handed by Lokayukta at his residence while offering Rs 1 lakh to a KIADB official to hush up the case. Jagadish has been arrested and will be produced before a magistrate. He was offering hush money to Ramanjinappa, one of the tainted KIADB officials in special land acquisition office.

"We were there on information provided by Ramanjinappa. Jagadish had called him when he was in land acquisition office at Gandhinagar. He had offered Rs 1 lakh to Ramanjinappa, asking him not to reveal his name during Lokayukta investigations. He also called him to his residence at Sadashivanagar to collect money," Lokayukta ADGP R K Dutta informed TOI.

However, Naidu said: "Lokayukta will come out with the truth. It is nothing but a trap executed after a well-planned conspiracy against my son. I know who are behind this and I'll make their names public once the Lokayukta investigation gets over. I'm confident that Lokayukta will come out with the truth and do justice. There is no question of my resignation".



http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/6661600.cms



Yeddyurappa shatters Katta’s IT park dreams

Already mired in the KIADB scam, Minister Katta Subramanya Naidu was angling for a chance to acquire over 10,000 acres near Bangalore for a central government IT project. But Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa stepped in and spoilt his party. As they say, once bitten, twice shy.


That job is now with the industries department headed by industries minister Murugesh Nirani.

A highly placed official from the Chief Minister’s secretariat filled Bangalore Mirror in on the finer details of the CM’s snub to Katta.

It all started last December with the Union Ministry of Communication directing Karnataka’s information technology and biotechnology ministry headed by Katta to come out with a proposal and suitable location for the Information Technology Investment Region (ITIR).

Seizing the opportunity, Katta’s ministry decided to set up the ITIR between Devanahalli and Nandi Hills. In February, they mooted a proposal to the Chief Minister’s office, and asked to be allowed to issue a notification to acquire the 10,000-plus acres. They also requested the CM to allow them to pay compensation for the acquired land.

“At this juncture, the CM, who’s seen the way Katta handled land acquisitions when he was an industries minister earlier, referred it to the industries department which normally acquires land for industrial purposes.

“Industries minister Murugesh Nirani protested vehemently saying it was against the established norms. He argued that if Katta’s ministry was allowed to acquire lands for the IT park, every other ministry involved in the infrastructure business would want to acquire land directly. Thus, the industries department set up for this purpose alone would become redundant.

“The CM bought this argument and overruled Katta’s request in April by leaving a note — let KIADB acquire lands by issuing a notification and then hand it over to the IT & BT ministry,” the officer said.

After the CM’s order, Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board conducted a survey of the location and issued a preliminary notification in June to acquire 2,072 acres initially. The final notification and awarding of compensation is pending. The KIADB intends to issue another notification/s to acquire the remaining 8,000 acres.

Once operational, the ITIR is expected to create employment for 39 lakh people and attract an investment of Rs 1 lakh crore.

‘Sack katta’
RSS top-brass in the state summoned Yeddyurappa to their headquarters on Tuesday and asked him to sack Katta Subramanya Naidu whose name figures in the KIADB land scam.

According to sources, the CM requested the RSS functionaries to give him some time before axing Katta.

http://www.bangaloremirror.com/artic...rk-dreams.html

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tell me one place in the world where we dont find currupt/greedy people;

[Indian Sun]

Mariana Trench.

[arunpr]

Originally Posted by naveen_blr

tell me one place in the world where we dont find currupt/greedy people;

Corruption will be there in all the projects. In the case of ITIR, it is not just corruption. Politicians are trying to loot the property of poor people in the name of ITIR. Entire 10000 acres is agriculture land and it will put an end to the livelihood of farmers.

There are 1000s of acres of barren land available in other cities like Mysore, Belgaum, Hubli Shimoga, Hasan etc to contruct IT parks which is much more cheaper than this land. Politicians are trying to bring it to Devanahalli to get good appreciation for the land they bought in Devanahalli. Intention is not jobs. But the intention is to take over the farmers land and loot the state & country !!!

[gentem]

Originally Posted by arunpr

Corruption will be there in all the projects. In the case of ITIR, it is not just corruption. Politicians are trying to loot the property of poor people in the name of ITIR. Entire 10000 acres is agriculture land and it will put an end to the livelihood of farmers.

There are 1000s of acres of barren land available in other cities like Mysore, Belgaum, Hubli Shimoga, Hasan etc to contruct IT parks which is much more cheaper than this land. Politicians are trying to bring it to Devanahalli to get good appreciation for the land they bought in Devanahalli. Intention is not jobs. But the intention is to take over the farmers land and loot the state & country !!!

Dude if we shift ITIR to mysore/hubli, IT companies will go for hyd/chennai ITIR instead. Dont bring your conspiracy theories of devanahalli land, "selected few looting poor" etc. "Other side of airport" always has potential, as in Gurgaon was very close to delhi airport.

[arunpr]

Originally Posted by gentem

Dude if we shift ITIR to mysore/hubli, IT companies will go for hyd/chennai ITIR instead. Dont bring your conspiracy theories of devanahalli land, "selected few looting poor" etc. "Other side of airport" always has potential, as in Gurgaon was very close to delhi airport.

Most of the IT companies are interested to move to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. If govt promotes IT parks in Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities, then Karnataka can get more IT investments. Thats the reason why many companies are moving to places like Coimbatore. TN govt is promoting Coimbatore in a big way. Recently PACE (Opened office in Bangalore around 2-3 years back) started operations in Coimbatore & they are planning to move their entire development centre to Coimbatore in the coming years. Same is the case with companies like Bosch & Cognizant too. Cognizant is expanding in Coimbatore. Cognizant started a centre in Kochi too. Also companies like Tata Elxsi, Wipro & Infosys etc are planning to start centres in Mysore.

If karnataka govt doesnt promote Tier 2 & 3 cities, then companies will start moving to Tier 2 & 3 cities in other states. Also govts money invested in other cities like Shimoga & Mysore will be waste.

Some politicians are wasting tax payers money to acquire agriculture land for ITIR at very high rates. Barren Land is readily available and govt is unnecessary wasting money to acquire new agriculture land. This is only to help the ruling politcians !!!!

[gentem]

Originally Posted by arunpr

Most of the IT companies are interested to move to Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. If govt promotes IT parks in Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities, then Karnataka can get more IT investments. Thats the reason why many companies are moving to places like Coimbatore. TN govt is promoting Coimbatore in a big way. Recently PACE (Opened office in Bangalore around 2-3 years back) started operations in Coimbatore & they are planning to move their entire development centre to Coimbatore in the coming years. Same is the case with companies like Bosch & Cognizant too. Cognizant is expanding in Coimbatore. Cognizant started a centre in Kochi too. Also companies like Tata Elxsi, Wipro & Infosys etc are planning to start centres in Mysore.

If karnataka govt doesnt promote Tier 2 & 3 cities, then companies will start moving to Tier 2 & 3 cities in other states. Also govts money invested in other cities like Shimoga & Mysore will be waste.

Some politicians are wasting tax payers money to acquire agriculture land for ITIR at very high rates. Barren Land is readily available and govt is unnecessary wasting money to acquire new agriculture land. This is only to help the ruling politcians !!!!

This ITIR is big... This has to be close to metro city for support. Recently 2 SEZs are approved by center for Mysore, even mangalore is doing good in IT. Promoting Shimoga is foolishness, that is a Tier 4 city and simply no support for living, only that it is Yeddy's place. And yes, to harvest full use of International Airport, we need to develop other side too, and this ITIR is good opportunity.

[arunpr]

Originally Posted by gentem

This ITIR is big... This has to be close to metro city for support. Recently 2 SEZs are approved by center for Mysore, even mangalore is doing good in IT. Promoting Shimoga is foolishness, that is a Tier 4 city and simply no support for living, only that it is Yeddy's place. And yes, to harvest full use of International Airport, we need to develop other side too, and this ITIR is good opportunity.

Strating ITIR in Bangalore is the biggest foolishness!!! It will only help some politcians to loot the tax payers money. Karnataka should look other places for starting ITIR. Present ITIR will make the entire area in Devanahalli, Chikkaballapur, Dodaballapur area into a concrete jungle & it will affect the agriculture production of the state & the country.

Instead of this govt should use barren land available in other parts of the state. Government can acquire land and contruct Airport also with the money they are goin to spend in Bangalore (Govt has to spend 1000s of crores to complete the land acquisition). Govt should use this money for the development of other parts of the state. It will help more local Kannadigas to get job too.

Now govts intention is to loot & transfer tax payers money to the hands of some politicians & business men associated with those politcians. Thats why they are plannning in Bangalore itself. They are not interested in any investments in other parts of the state. Only motive is real estate interests of the ruling politcians !!!!

[engineer.akash]

Originally Posted by arunpr

Strating ITIR in Bangalore is the biggest foolishness!!! It will only help some politcians to loot the tax payers money. Karnataka should look other places for starting ITIR. Present ITIR will make the entire area in Devanahalli, Chikkaballapur, Dodaballapur area into a concrete jungle & it will affect the agriculture production of the state & the country.

Instead of this govt should use barren land available in other parts of the state. Government can acquire land and contruct Airport also with the money they are goin to spend in Bangalore (Govt has to spend 1000s of crores to complete the land acquisition). Govt should use this money for the development of other parts of the state. It will help more local Kannadigas to get job too.

Dude please stop it....

[arunpr]

Originally Posted by engineer.akash

Dude please stop it....

People should know about the facts of the land which is going to be acquired for ITIR .. There is nothing wrong in it.

[avinash2060]

Originally Posted by arunpr

Corruption will be there in all the projects. In the case of ITIR, it is not just corruption. Politicians are trying to loot the property of poor people in the name of ITIR. Entire 10000 acres is agriculture land and it will put an end to the livelihood of farmers.

There are 1000s of acres of barren land available in other cities like Mysore, Belgaum, Hubli Shimoga, Hasan etc to contruct IT parks which is much more cheaper than this land. Politicians are trying to bring it to Devanahalli to get good appreciation for the land they bought in Devanahalli. Intention is not jobs. But the intention is to take over the farmers land and loot the state & country !!!

Compensation/acre of 70 lakh for non agricultural Land less???(Not even a single inch of land in Devanhalli is Fertile it's all Barren There ,Well Bangalore has Global Image ,You cannot Find Quality Workforce in Mysore ,Belgaum, Hubli Shimoga, Hasan etc ,After It's Based on Employees Preference Companies Set up Campuses not to please Local People of Tier-2 Cities ,If Infosys Hires 25000 hardly 10000 turn up and among them 10-20% will quit during training people coming from Bangalore,Hydrabad,Delhi,Mumbai,Kolkata and other Metros find Life in Mysore Boring with no Shopping Malls and Recreational Centers They will die out of Boredom .If the Company Has to Retain Best in Class Talent They are Compelled to set up Campus in Top Eight Metros